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With the help of Solar Studios, we built three digital in-person exhibitions based on a year of coding and text analysis.
The final exhibit is open to the public from 5/21/21-6/21/21
Hours: 10am-6pm on Mon-Fri
12pm-4pm Sat-Sun
Tour the PULSES | PROCESSING exhibit with Dr. Lan A. Li (8:37)
Room 1
Room 2
Room 3
Planning & Coding
Dr. Tristan Revells and Josh Harper reviewing potential Processing code to use for reading pulses. 2/11/21
Dr. James Clifton workshopping video draft of a close reading Du Halde excerpt on Pulses in an Old Man. 2/11/21
Lily Weeks workshopping a video of a close reading of Du Halde excerpt on death pulses. 2/11/21
Dr. James Clifton surprising the group with his homemade stethoscope to record his heart beating in Pulses in an Old Man video 2/11/21
Dr. James Clifton demonstrating the use of his homemade stethoscope 2/11/21
Actual Building of the Exhibit
Location walk-through at Solar Studios 4/3/21
Lily Weeks studying the container doors 4/3/21
Dr. Tianna Uchacz and Josh Harper installing a projector for a looping video exhibit 5/15/21
Determining distance from the wall for installing the projector 5/15/21
Lily Weeks installing a project mount 5/15/21
Dr. James Clifton and Dr. Tess Clifton creating a bench 5/15/21
Dr. Lan Li ironing black out curtains 5/20/21
Dr. Lan Li patching walls & triaging with Josh Harper & Lily Weeks 5/20/21
Redesigned wall for looping video projection 5/20/21
5/21 Soft Launch
Soft launch poster 5/21/21
Viewer #001 (Ben) experiencing full exhibit 5/21/21
The introductory didactic to the looping video exhibit “Pulses Performed” explaining the background to the selection of the text 5/21/21
Dr. Yael Loewenstein entering the looping vide exhibit “Pulses Performed” 5/21/21
Dr. Yael Loewenstein viewing one of the three looping videos in “Pulses Performed” 5/21/21
Associated text for the three looping videos in “Pulses Performed” including Pulses in an Old Man (James Clifton), Pan Manru’s Spleen (Lan Li) and Deathly Pulses (Lily Weeks) 5/21/21
Closeup of James Cliton’s selected text from Pulses in an Old Man 5/21/21
Closeup of Lily Week’s selected text for Deathly Pulses 5/21/21
Entry didactic for the interactive Processing exhibit Waiting for Pulse by Dr. Tristan Revells and Josh Harper 5/21/21
Last touches on setting up Waiting for Pulse exhibit 5/21/21
Final touches for Waiting for Pulse exhibit following user feedback 5/21/21
Dr. Yael Loewenstein taking her pulse reading in Waiting for Pulse and receiving a response to pulses associated with her kidney and bladder 5/21/21
Dr. James Clifton and Dr. Tess Clifton inspecting the reading of Dr. James Clifton’s pulse in Waiting for Pulse 5/21/21
Josh Harper posing in front of Shireen Hamza’s text “What you Feel” designed by Lily Weeks with instructions on feeling for the pulse and its accompanying audio 5/21/21
Josh, Lily, and Isabelle celebrating soft launch 5/21/21
James, Lily, Lan, and Josh celebrating soft launch 5/21/21
Image of comment section inviting viewers to reflect on their experience 5/21/21
Initial comments from participants reflecting on the visualizations 5/21/21
Comments from participants reflecting on their experience, “This was such an interesting combination of wights, sounds and lessons. I found it unsettling, actually, in a really neat way. Thank you for the experience!” – Anon 5/21/21PULSES GOES LIVE
Pulses Room 1 on a rainy day.
Tian-Tian, Alicia, and Zhou Zhou taking each other’s pulses.
Tian-Tian taking Shah’s pulse on the left hand, cun position.
Zhou Zhou, Alicia, and Tian-Tian observing Deathly Complexions video in Room 2.
Pulse sensor waiting for pulse.
Room 3 waiting for pulse.
Moiz, Shah, Danyal, and Aysel arrive with pulses and an Apple watch.
Danyal Rizvi with the awaiting sensor.
Tianna Uchacz at Solar Studios.
